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(21,691 posts)If I forget to inject myself at night, it's between 160-200 even if I went to bed at 79. During the day, it generally doesn't go higher than 110, and I only do the one nightly injection.
Before the last course of steroids, which was a heavier course than was really needed, I was tested frequently because of the strong family history on both sides of my family of both T1 and T2. I was "old school" pre-diabetic, aka hypOglycemic and it was likely that I'd have become diabetic in my 60s. Instead, during that round of steroids, my vision was severely impaired, I was drinking 4 to 5 gallons of water a day, and I presented with a BG of 660. Additionally I was in nephrotic syndrome from my non-diabetic kidney disease. For patients like me, drugs really are the answer. Then again, I think pasta is boring as hell and don't like it, and was never a big bread eater. Lantus has caused hypokalemia in me, which does have an upside; I no longer have to limit or cook the day lights out of vegetables (part of my renal modifications).
When I became diabetic, I was fortunate to come under the care of a diabetes specialist who became my primary physician for 10 years. He was an encyclopedia of knowledge and research about this disease, and it's because of what he taught me I believe I've had success in managing it. I hope you do, too; at first it's a little overwhelming but it gets to be routine.